Réunion Island’s residents wonder whether all the attention from the discovery of airplane debris will help or harm them

RÉUNION ISLAND, France—On this sleepy speck of French territory, residents have been reeling from the unprecedented global attention that suspected wreckage from a passenger jet lost last year has brought to their tropical shores.

On Friday, Réunion was adjusting to a third day at the top of the global news agenda. Hundreds of curious tourists and foreign journalists descended on the rocky Indian Ocean beach where a chunk of airplane wing was discovered this past week.

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